How To Pronounce Tough

In British English, tough is pronounced /tʌf/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [tʰʌf]. In American English, it is pronounced /tʌf/.

Tough has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.